A good sport
Being “a good sport” means you are gracious when you win and gracious when you lose. Both are difficult but more so when you are accustomed to winning and unexpectedly you lose. Here, in Cayman, we don’t have too many…
Letter to the Editor
Dear Sir, Recently, for the first time in the long history of the Courts of these Islands, comments have been made publicly which bring into question the integrity of decisions of the Courts. While the great majority of the responses…
Food, Glorious Food: “Beef Stroganoff” – traditional English????
OK, I confess to being a foodie. No, not one of those arty types who likes having a vast continent of white plate with a couple of small islands of food in a small sea of something we used to…
Independence
A government website has been set up (www.cabinetoffice.gov.ky) where the public is being invited to respond to eight main questions on the relationship the Cayman Islands has with the UK. The questions are: Challenges – Economic Development; Challenges – Everyday…
Protection and Virgin
We had some unity in the L.A. when our legislators voted ‘yes’ to allow security guards to wear bulletproof vests, use handcuffs, pepper spray and have access to equip themselves with and use batons. I was under the impression it…
Violent children in a violent world: Violent children are four times more likely to come from homes with parental violence
Although this article contains figures and quotes pertaining to the USA there is much in common with the juvenile scene here in Cayman. In the USA, the Juvenile Violent Crime Index arrest rate reached a historic low in 2004, down…
The “Yellow Peril”
Sax Rohmer, an English novelist, wrote a number of books about a Chinese criminal called (Dr.) Fu Manchu in the early to middle 1900’s. His heroes faced the worldwide conspiracy of the “Yellow Peril.” The term was used as a…
Meetings, talk and no action
As we told you two weeks ago together with an editorial, MLA Ellio Soloman proposed a plan to designate certain jobs as Caymanian only. An amendment bill allowing Cabinet members to do this is expected to come before the legislature…
To the Editor:
Congratulations to reporter Tad Stoner and iNews on the Rudi Dixon scoop. Tad continues to break important stories and, in many cases, has the other media playing “catch-up.” I have one issue, however, relating to two photographs that accompanied the…
The Cayman media
The media has come for quite a bashing here over the past few days. The Uk’s Daily Mail followed by the Sunday Mirror recently did features purporting to expose the visit of Merseyside Chief Constable Jon Murphy and two colleagues…
